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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Gastropoda (class) » Cephalaspidea (order) » Haminoeidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 24 330010 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Phanerophthalmus luteus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) |
| CAAB category: | 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda | |
| Family: | Haminoeidae (bubble shells) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | [a bubble shell] | |
| Recent Synonyms: | Phanerophthalmus smaragdinus | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list:  Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) South Pacific (Fiji etc.) Tropical Indo-Pacific (countries N/NE Australia) | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
24 330908
Phanerophthalmus spp. | |
| Organism Type: | a bubble shell |
| Taxon Notes: | Australian material was originally identified as P. smaragdinus, a synonym of the Red Sea endemic species P. olivaceus. This material is most likely P. luteus, although it is possible that P. paulayi may also be present in this region. All Australian records of need to be re-examined in detail. | ||
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| Record source: | Malaquais, M.A. Reid, D.G., 2008. Systematic revision of the living species of Bullidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea), with a molecular phylogenetic analysis., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 153: 453-543. |
| Scientific Name verified against: | Austin, J. Gosliner, T. Malaquias, M.A.E., 2018. Systematic revision, diversity patterns and trophic ecology of the tropical Indo-West Pacific sea slug genus Phanerophthalmus A. Adams, 1850 (Cephalaspidea, Haminoeidae)., Invertebrate Systematics, Vol. 32: 1336-1387. . doi.org/10.1071/IS17086 |